I hear you!

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MIM Std Tele, MIM HSS Strat, Homemade Mongrel Tele, Blues Jr, Champ600, coupla pedals...sweeeet!

You have a Job!!!!! In the U.S. they say there are 2 million job openings and 15 million looking!!!! But our leaders say things are looking up They must be talking about them selfs sure not us. I am lost without my rigging work of 50 plus hours a week. Even side work droped off a lot. Picked up some lately but for how long. You can't depend on sidework!!!!

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self-employment is the ABSOLUTE, MOST REWARDING, BEST FRIKKIN' THING you could ever do.
sooner or later in the "big world" of business, you get tired of people telling you what and how to do what you're already proficient at all by yourself... time to make the move my friend.

"the only thing you have to fear... is fear itself."

my wife and i run a business out of our home. a traffic jam for me is a sneaker at my garage door. we make signs... that's it. we don't do taxes so we hire somebody to do that for us... and he buys signs from us. don't let anything hold you back, just talk to self-employed people and find out how they do it. keep it leagle. if you lose a good reputation you'll never get it back.

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Hello Nevin1985,

Well I am now in my second month of being unemployed
And let me tell you, it stinks and I Hate it.
My county is chock full of people like me on the dole.
Frankly I'd be thrilled to have an $18/hr job right now.
I YIYIYI , but yet anyday I'm above ground is a good day.

Cheers.

You have a website for your business?

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I hear you there man.. I'm in my 10th month. Jobs in Vegas are extremely dead in new home construction.

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I work anywhere from 8hr shifts to 16 hr shifts at $9.00 an hour as a cook at Primanti Bros, simply to pay for school and other expenses. I won't say I hate my job, hate is such a strong word. I'll say I lament, loath, dislike, spite, despise, , abhore, am sick of, deprecate, detest, disapprove, disdain, have had enough of, spit upon, and execrate my job. But I did get employee of the month last month o_O

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Hi Nevin: got a farm? Got out-buildings?

Man, if I had that I'd set up a workshop in one of them and build guitars there. That could be got going very cheaply. I'd do it as a sideline in the beginning, because much as you dislike your farming job it is still paying your bills and such. So a gentle shift from the one to the other rather than a cataclysmic switch would be a sensible approach.

Lotta people build guitars on a small scale basis: few make a good living at it. And that goes for many other things you might consider switching to. Still, if the second career takes off you might be able to keep the farm but contract out some of the hours, perhaps? Best of both worlds.

So use the opportunity you have to add a new line of work and see if you can grow it, rather than taking a blind leap.

This is the kind of boringly sober advice middle aged people who've seen a little of life give out...

BTW: I've been self-employed all my adult life. There's good things about it - and bad things too. Let's not get carried away with how wonderful it is...

Cheers - C

+1. Self-employment is great. It's also a huge PITA.

I work in a call center where if you work too hard and follow the rules it results in being written up if you complain about those doing about 70% of their job, taking 5-5 fifteen minute breaks a day, missing 25+ days out of this work year (YES 25 DAYS and not fired yet) and not actually helping our clients which only results in an angry client calling back...but still being told that the "expectations" are the same across the board.

My job is as mentally unhealthy as it gets and from 9-530 every day i am in HELL.

Nevin, you should start making your own parts guitars and selling them? Or may start a relicing service? Ive been thinking about doing that on the side just for fun since you can piece together a guitar pretty cheaply and sell it for more from what I ave seen on Ebay.

Good luck man, I am right there with you...my hell begins in 11 minutes.

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I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too.

You have light days. I just got out of a ad agency job where they had us scheduled for up to 98 hrs of work a week, dude. I loved the work, and I didn't mind the hours --- sometimes --- since I really love the work. But I just couldn't keep that up for long, and it was getting consistent.

Find what you LOVE to do, and try to find some way to make money at it. I was told that so many years ago, and thought it was BS, but it's totally true, once you find what you really want to do. Here's a great example of that...

http://www.comcast.net/video/young-entr ... 293002069/

i wish it was that simple i really do

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I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too.

Many of us are in the same boat and hate their jobs...

My killing floor is in the corporate world, I dont get my hands dirty, just my mind. Still I am living paycheck to paycheck, just a little play money is what's left over so I dont shoot myself.

Still I wake up in the morning amongst the living and as long as my fingers can grab a guitar I feel good enough to keep on.

50 years ago we would just put our sorrows in a song instead of this forum...

The IT job I work at just decided they no longer have a standard work week (Ie you work 7*24 till the load is done, which it never is) at the same time they decided they will no longer pay for overtime. And the North American IT layoffs are constant as positions are moved over to data centers in India or China.

We do run our own imaging business but times became lean lately, hence the above IT position to try to make ends meet.

Wonderful, now I feel a case of the blues coming on,
need to go buy more lottery tickets

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Keep on Truckin, Going full speed ahead down the highway to hades.

I'm in IT as well in the NY area. All of our tier 1 helpdesk staff is now subbed to India. Those who were lucky enough to stay with the company in the US are pretty much just tier 2.

Helpdesk calls load has decreased and as it continues to happen, I'm guessing US hiring at that level will stop.